A Mathematical Challenge to Obesity

NY Times

Costa Rica has its own nutritional experts, they are college graduates and you can find then in any town – but they are useless.

American experts study how the body actually works – which is often far different from how it should act, in theory. His conclusion is:

It’s something very simple, very obvious, something that few want to hear: The epidemic was caused by the overproduction of food in the United States.

One other thing: it takes a year for your new diet to work – or in some cases three years.

I tried the simulator mentioned in the article, but it didn’t work. I went to the trouble to uninstall all my old Java and install the latest Java (which was something worth doing anyway) but it still didn’t work. Don’t mess with it.

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